RESOURCE CENTRE MANUAL
HEALTHLINK WORLDWIDE
Available from: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), PO Box 2869,
http://www.streamsofknowledge.net Fax: +31 15 21 929 39
Price: Free
PHILIPPS, Eva
Documentation made easy : a library manual for nongovernmental organizations
specializing in appropriate technology and rural development
Wiesbaden : Vieweg & Son, 1990, 205 p ill.
ISBN: 3 528 02054 7
This is the work of a practitioner who is well acquainted with her subject, and
who gives those in charge of documentation in development associations many
examples and tools as well as a general filing layout for the small libraries of
grassroots organisations. The manual is aimed primarily at readers with no
previous experience in librarianship and documentation.
Web location: http://www5.gtz.de/gate/publications/G28doe.pdf
Available from: German Appropriate Technology Exchange (GATE),
Information Service, PO Box 5180, 657 26 Eschborn, Germany E-mail: gate-
Internet: http://www.gtz.de/gate Fax: +49 6196 797352
Price: US$15.25
POWELL, Mike
Information management for development organisations
2nd ed.
(Oxfam Development Guidelines.)
Oxford : Oxfam, 2003, 294 p.
ISBN: 0 85598 483 X
The book is about managing information in the workplace rather than in a
resource centre or library. It is aimed at managers of community groups and non-
governmental organisations in developing countries and elsewhere. It aims to
help them to think critically about what kinds of information they, their staff,
and their project partners need. It discusses how they can access such
information, manage it, and communicate it in the most effective and equitable
way. It includes some practical tools and exercises to help readers to relate the
ideas to their own situations. In this second edition, discussions of knowledge
management, capacity building, institutional learning, evaluation and impact
assessment, research, information products, and evidence-based work have been
added, or considerably extended, together with a number of new case studies.
Available from: Oxfam Publishing, 274 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DZ, UK,
or in southern Africa: Anglia Book and Freight Consolidators, PO Box 140,
Internet: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/publications Fax: +44 1865 313 713, +27 44
343 3066
Price: £10.95
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